Build instructions outdated?

[Stefan Sperling]

I am trying to build TortoiseSVN trunk by following the build instructions
at https://sourceforge.net/p/tortoisesvn/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/build.txt

I am stuck at this step during installation of dependencies:

- libxml2 python bindings(\b 2) http://users.skynet.be/sbi/libxml-python/

The provided link no longer resolves. Where can I find an installation archive
of this dependency?

The file build.txt also recommends installing Python 2.6, which I could manage
to do by digging a bit. But since Python 2.6 is end-of-life, I wonder if using
a newer version would work?
Which version are TSVN developers currently using in practice? Still 2.6?

Regards,
Stefan

[Stefan]

On Tuesday, October 17, 2023 at 1:10:58 PM UTC+2 Stefan Sperling wrote:

I am trying to build TortoiseSVN trunk by following the build instructions
at https://sourceforge.net/p/tortoisesvn/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/build.txt

I am stuck at this step during installation of dependencies:

- libxml2 python bindings(\b 2) http://users.skynet.be/sbi/libxml-python/

The provided link no longer resolves. Where can I find an installation archive
of this dependency?

that link is still listed as the windows port:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/wikis/Python-bindings

so currently I don't have a working url either...

 

The file build.txt also recommends installing Python 2.6, which I could manage
to do by digging a bit. But since Python 2.6 is end-of-life, I wonder if using
a newer version would work?
Which version are TSVN developers currently using in practice? Still 2.6?

I tried once to upgrade to a newer python version. I could make everything work with python3 with the exception of the xml2po.py file.

And since that is a crucial part of the doc translation, I reverted everything back to python2.6.

But I'm also considering dropping the translated docs and only leave the English docs alive. In that case we could update to python3.

Stefan

 

[Stefan Sperling]

Hi,

No response in 2 weeks, so I am bumping this thread in case it
fell through the cracks.

Any hints as to how I can proceed to get the TSVN build working,
given the above?

Regards,
Stefan

[Stefan Sperling]

In the list archives I see now that there was a response to my question.

This response never reached me by e-mail for some reason, even though
I believe I subscribed to the list. Anyway, sorry for the noise.